Originally Posted by
EESDL
So how much does the runway need to be extended to permit the big freighters to come and go?
Is there still the real estate available to extend?
The runway was long enough to take a 747.. it was also exceptionally wide I recall..
Remember seeing a Virgin 747 doing training circuits at Manston.. maybe it will reopen.. it must be the closest runway to Europe.
”Planet Thanet” was a bit run down in the 1980’s but seems to have recovered.